A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

The world's longest known cave system.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.